Shader Mixer w/ Iray - no previews?

rcbcgreenpanzer

Is there any way to get useful shader previews while using Iray? Currently, all the previews I tried just render a flat, dark gray where 3delight has a shader-ified sphere against a blue, red, light gray background. When I tried messing with the render settings, nothing seemed to make a difference. I attached screenshots of a brick under each engine. 

SickleYield

I've been playing with it lately trying to decouple the tiling from the main shader (so far I've got a shader with separated tilers in the shader mixer window that consolidates them all with a parenthetical number in actual DS).  I have a similar frustration.

Richard Haseltine

SickleYield said:

I've been playing with it lately trying to decouple the tiling from the main shader (so far I've got a shader with separated tilers in the shader mixer window that consolidates them all with a parenthetical number in actual DS).  I have a similar frustration.

Isn't tiling per-image in Iray? Adjustable in the Image Editor dilogue.

SickleYield

Richard Haseltine said:

SickleYield said:

I've been playing with it lately trying to decouple the tiling from the main shader (so far I've got a shader with separated tilers in the shader mixer window that consolidates them all with a parenthetical number in actual DS).  I have a similar frustration.

Isn't tiling per-image in Iray? Adjustable in the Image Editor dilogue.

 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *Squee* *Thud.*

Well, I still don't know how Shader Mixer works, but THAT just made my day!!  Thank you so much Richard. :) :) :)